The briefing included everyone but a single absentee. Nero was nowhere to be seen, and for him that was actually very odd behavior. He always silently obeyed every order and every regulation without so much as a small groan or complaint. For [i]him[/i] to be late was a strange thing indeed. In actuality, he was in the ship's gym. It was here that soldiers trained, usually in sparring matches. The so-called dark elf - however - was alone. He always was. He made a habit of using the training facilities at times when he knew no one else would be present. The less he had to show his face, the better. So there he was, in the gym hanging on one of the bars completing what could easily have been his hundredth or thousandth rep doing chin-ups. His armor was - on this rare occasion -  mostly taken off. The breastplate lay on a nearby bench along with his helmet, gloves, and boots.

In all honesty, Nero's presence at the briefings were not entirely necessary. The introverted soldier would just quietly obey orders regardless of what the actual mission was. And usually, his orders were almost always the same. His particular... skill set usually earned him the role of "meat shield" for someone else, since the Rylokian easily had the highest endurance and tolerance for pain than anyone else on the ship. Either that or he'd be ordered to flank the enemy position and ambush them from behind with his Ki Blades. Either way, both tasks were things he'd proven countless times to be [i]very[/i] good at. There was little reason to have him do anything else, though he obviously [i]would[/i] if given the order.

He spent a lot of off time in this gym. Where most other soldiers would spend their free time getting a drink, a meal, or even a woman from some shady brothel somewhere... Nero just toiled away in the gym, as if his training somehow needed to be constant and nonstop for some undisclosed reason. The truth was simply that he didn't know what else to do. The only instinct he had was to follow orders, and nothing else mattered. In essence, much of Nero's free time was spent simply waiting for new orders... him passing the time with little else but training and exercise.